Despite the name of the blog, these are not actually tall tales. They are the stories of my adventures while preaching the gospel to the people of Oregon and Washington.

Monday, November 9, 2015

A great week for finding investigators

Weekly Report

Well it was another
good week here in the WVM. Actually as far as finding goes it was probably the
best week I’ve seen so far. In these last seven days (including p-day) we were
able to find 10 new investigators! I'm most psyched about a family of three that
was in our potentials list. We decided to stop by one night to see if they were
interested and S**** S**** (the dad) answered the door. We ended up having an
hour long lesson on his doorstep in the pouring rain where we taught him the
entire restoration and the entire gospel of Jesus Christ. It was pretty killer.
That was on Monday, we had our next appointment on Saturday and
that was an even better lesson. By Saturday, Scott's wife had read all of
the literature we gave Scott and then some. ha at the end of the lesson the
whole family was way psyched about the gospel and said "after years and
years of searching, this is the only church that makes sense" Heck
yeah!

I can't remember if I
talked about P**** last week, but she is an investigator from the last
missionaries who is on date for baptism. ...and actually her date is really
close, as in its on Saturday! ha we're pretty psyched about it. We
actually don't have to do much for the baptism. The other Elders taught her so
they're going to come back to baptize her and everything, all we had to do was
get a baptism interview for her which she easily passed.

it's a blast living
where i am! Every evening my comp and i chill with the Portland ZLs and since
we all live in Portland, we always have good stories to tell each other at the
end of the day.

One story from this
week happened yesterday while driving back from an appointment. But before I
start this story, I have to give some background info. About two and a half
months ago I found a Tongan book of Mormon in my room. Since tracting gets kind
of boring sometimes I decided I’d take the book of Mormon with me every time we
went tracting in the hopes of running into a Tongan. Two and a half months
later I hadn't run into a single Tongan... that is until Sunday! As we
were driving home, we saw the license plate of the car in front of us said
"Tongan Pride" on it. i was
like "Elder, we have to follow that car!!" So we followed it to a
grocery store right next to where we live. Yes! shopping on Sunday, that
means he's not a member. In an effort to be inconspicuous we decided to wait
until after he got out of the store to give him the Book of Mormon. We
only had to wait for like two minutes for him to come out of the store again empty-handed.
I almost killed myself getting out of the car to in intercept him, but I did
and then.... Surprise he's a member! Aaaggggh! He felt bad about
going to the store on Sunday so he didn't buy anything haha. Stay
tuned, when I finally give away that Book of Mormon it'll be a crazy story!

Oh I saw the sun
today! It was only for like 30 minutes, but I consider that noteworthy! Anyway
I hope you guys have a great week!